If somebody was surprised when Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27 on September 18, 1970, it wasn’t Jimi Hendrix. In an interview he gave a little more than a year before he died, Jimi was already talking about his funeral, “I tell you when I die, I’m not going to have a funeral . . . I’m going to have a jam session. And, knowing me, I’ll probably get busted at my own funeral.”